An A.I. (artificial intelligence) glossary

The last six years have witnessed breakthroughs in everything from self-driving cars to algorithms that can detect diseases, and social networks like Twitter that rely on “artificial intelligence” (A.I.) to determine what content appears on our feeds. Here is a non-exhaustive glossary.

Artificial neural network (ANN)

An algorithm that attempts to mimic the human brain, with layers of connected “neurons” sending information to each other.